City-based psychiatrist Dr Satyakant Trivedi, in a six-point proposal to state education minister, has urged the school education department to include student’s mental well-being in the school curriculum.

Washington D.C.[USA], June 12 (ANI) A study has revealed that patients with a disease that lasts for more than three months like back pain, diabetes and heart disease are at increased risk of committing suicide.

Former Union health secretary Keshav Desiraju, one of the key members who drafted the Mental Healthcare Bill, 2016 passed by Parliament last month, says that negotiations are on with critics over the impact of the new legislation.

The death rate in the United States rose last year for the first time in a decade, preliminary federal data shows, a rare increase that was driven in part by more people dying from drug overdoses, suicide and Alzheimer's disease.

Fifteen years since farmers in the state’s Marathwada and Vidarbha regions started taking their own lives, the state on Friday announced the first psycho-social health plan to check the epidemic of suicides.

The risk of completed suicide is high among people with previous attempts, particularly during the first few years after the attempt. In a study, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have shown how the method used for the attempt plays a role in the risk of a subsequent suicide death.

A new study published in journal The Lancet outlines a programme for preventing suicidality among young people. The results provide strong endorsement for a method whereby school students learn to discover signs of mental ill-health in themselves and their friends, while they are also trained to understand, interpret and manage challenging emotions.

A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao passed the order while acting on a PIL filed by Delhi-based dermatologist Zaheer Ahmed who complained that lakhs of medicines were being sold on the internet every day without much regulation, posing a huge risk to patients and doctors alike.